I wish I could remember where I first heard of Matthew Arnold. I recall encountering a long quotation from what is likely his most famous work, Culture and Anarchy,1 when reading another book and being drawn to it. (I thought it was quoted in Albert Camus’ The Rebel.2 However, I found from its re-read that…
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I’m certainly no fan of AI art.i To most concisely capture my opinion on the matter, you can borrow the sentiment I’ve repeatedly seen circulating on social media, attributed to one Joanna Maciejewska: “I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do…
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I’ve been hiding away and writing for the first time in a long while. After just over a week, I now have 4 workable drafts which, after a bit of editing, I plan to start posting. Starting in November, I’ll be posting again, monthly, on the first Sunday of each month. I hope you come…
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I’ll be participating at the Ontario Culture Days event at the Baggage Building Arts Centre on Sept 20. It’s from 6:30-9:00 pm and I’ll be one of the authors reading a 15 minute piece. Hope to see you there!
“You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra1 Three months ago, I introduced the concept of partisanism and discussed some of the problems it causes.2 Two months ago, I described how the partisan…
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Canadian Pharmacists Journal (CPJ) is the official publication of the Canadian Pharmacists Association (CPhA).i It’s the only major journal publishing original pharmacy practice research in Canada that I’m aware of, and it’s also a good source of therapeutic information, including clinical practice guidelines (or their summaries) and clinical tools providing practical information that can be…
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I was at a particularly receptive point in my life when I first encountered Czeslaw Milosz’s The Captive Mind,1 and I realized it early on in the work when he presented an important concept. When describing his decision to part from the Eastern bloc in the early ’50s,i Milosz explains: My own decision proceeded, not…
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I’m back, at least temporarily. After I started working my last job, I knew that my essay writing was likely to fall by the wayside, but I never expected it to fall off so quickly as the demands of my work completely overtook my life. I honestly tried to at least finish this series that…
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In one week, I’ll be posting an essay, the first in a four-part series. I’m excited to be sharing my work again after so long away.
I very recently finished a draft of the essay I was working on. Now, I’m reading for the next one, which will be the last in this series. Assuming I remain productive and I’m far enough along in the next one, I think I’m going to start posting again come May. The plan will be…
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